This is kind of one of those “how stupid are we?” type movies. It actually makes a kind of neat parallel with Josie and the Pussycats which I watched last week, though they couldn’t be more stylistically different. It’s mostly a “watch in the background” movie but it has several particularly scathing moments from narrator Malcolm McClaren, and some hilarious moments, like an old music teacher flicking through the sheet music of “Never Mind the Bollocks” saying, ‘these are all after my time, but –’’

The movie is narrated by McClaren kind of like a “how to” guide – tips for creating a successful band include [all paraphrased from memory] “Forget about music and concentrate on creating generation gaps …” and, “Terrorise, threaten, and insult your own useless generation…” When you see Sid Vicious performing, you see how effective this advice is.

It ends with a pretty fantastic sequence (where else?) in Paris culminating in Vicious opening fire on an audience at the Olympia. Not quite a documentary, then, but I don’t know how else to categorise it

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